Re: big database with very small dump !?

In response to Joao Ferreira gmail <joao(dot)miguel(dot)c(dot)ferreira(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>
> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:43 -0700, Vlad Kosilov wrote:
> > ./data/ you may want to exclude those. I find this query useful for
> > something like this as well:
> >
> > select datname,pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(oid)) from pg_database ;
> >
>
> Hello Vlad,
>
> I ran your query and I got the 9Gigas!
>
> I guess it should be related to index bloating, then. Do you agree ?

No, the index size is included in pg_database_size().

Perhaps do a du -hd1 /var/pgsql/data to see which directories have all
the space. (or du -h --max-depth=1 /var/pgsql/data on Linux)

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